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She got the most votes in week 1.
She clearly earned her place at the final last weekend. Even Shirley Bassey said that she would be happy to perform with Mary.
Simon feared that Mary would win so that's why he introduced the sing-of at the last minute - It wasn't to save Cher but was to stop Mary from winning as he knew exactly just how well she had done in the votings for the first 4 weeks.
A good duet with Bassey could have resulted in Mary winning the show!
What a shame that Mary did not avoid the bottom 2 in the semi finals!!
She clearly earned her place at the final last weekend. Even Shirley Bassey said that she would be happy to perform with Mary.
Simon feared that Mary would win so that's why he introduced the sing-of at the last minute - It wasn't to save Cher but was to stop Mary from winning as he knew exactly just how well she had done in the votings for the first 4 weeks.
A good duet with Bassey could have resulted in Mary winning the show!
What a shame that Mary did not avoid the bottom 2 in the semi finals!!
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Now that we've been given the voting figures from this series it's so obvious how far Mary was stiched up by the producers. I mean after she topped the votes in the first week they panicked, and as a result she was always one of the first acts to be on during the following weeks; an attempt by the producers to prevent her from winning.
She must be receiving A LOT of money for being treated so unfairly.
heres the campaign
http://www.facebook.com/birdbirdbirdistheword
Why not? They'd just have voted off Cher. Pretty simple really.
Mary was never going to win. She hadn't beaten One Direction for 5 weeks let alone Rebecca or Matt and she certainly wouldn't have picked up many votes from Cher.
She received some of the best slots in her first 3 weeks but her share of the vote was already dropping sharply when it should have been rising due to the 2 double eliminations.
That's hardly surprising. It tells the story we all saw on TV. She surprised us all in week 1, she was good in week 2 but nobody was surprised anymore and in week 3, nobody was even that impressed anymore.
The reason her votes were dropping was as a result of deiberate sabotage by Cowell.Giving her the graveyard slots in the latter weeks,never praising her,starting an argument with Louis each week instead of giving a critique.Despite all this she still finished 4th (not 5th) in the contest.
Week 2 - 18.55% - Two Acts already gone - The haemorrhage begins
Week 3 - 13.92% - Four acts now gone - continues to lose her own support rather than gaining new.
Week 4 - 11.98% - further slump in support
Week 5 - 12.02% - haemorrhage arrested - half the field now gone
Week 6 - 10.66% - etc etc etc
Given that Matt topped the polls all bar 1 week then Mary had absolutely no chance of winning whatever the circumstances.
Will I Am loved Cher. Has she been screwed over as well after her "celeb" endorsement.
Yes,but you have to factor in her position in the running order vis a vis her chief rivals and an increasingly hostile Cowell.The slump in her votes was very much a deliberate policy on his part....he was doing everything to get her off the show.
This fits with the deterioration in her performances.
After a couple of weeks she was exposed as a one trick pony.
Mary would probably have done better than 1D in the final - Simon did not want this.
Look at her position in the draw for the latter stages : always given the graveyard slot whilst the likes of 1D and Cher were performing last.Cowell lavishing praise on those two plus Matt and Rebecca,but telling Mary she was a pub singer and karaoke...it was all deliberate.
End of.
Iain
Sometimes though criticism like this would make people vote for her more. It can go one way or the other.
Why should he praise her? If anything, I suspect he was being dishonest by not criticising her as heavily as he really wanted to.
Surely the loss of the surprise factor played a major role? Even with praise and good slots at the start, her vote was already falling rapidly.
She hadn't beaten them for 5 weeks. Even when they sang before her, they were ahead of her.
Just what I was about to say
She must be devastated lol
Chances are that the novelty would have worn off for the public too hearing big belting songs every week but maybe not? Who knows? We'll never find out now will we? But to me, Mary was shafted.
She was good value for a place in the final.She finished 4th in the competition.She probably would have been the first one out on Saturday.....the only bone of contention is that she was robbed of her place in the final.